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The Wiki Workplace

From Me to YouIBM uses wikis and has a WikiCentral as an internal MySpace.

The United Nations is starting one to help staff in 80 countries share information.

16 U.S. intelligence agencies use a top-secret wiki called Intellipedia.

How are you using wiki to further your business, organization or ideas

How can you use AboutUs?

Newsweek: Power In Numbers: How wiki software is reforming bloated bureaucracies and changing the face of communication.

MarkDilley posted this entry on 8th July 2008 and tagged it as Did You Know?, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “The Wiki Workplace”

  1. Martin Pfahler Says:
    July 9th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    Perhaps a refined consensus polling process as mentioned on some aboutus pages will add more Wiki functionality in the future? That said I think for many applications and business motives this process is too slow. In contrast it might be a better fit for an application exposed in your mentioned Newsweek article, which states:

    The United Nations, notorious for endless deliberations, is trying a technological quick fix.

    Here one has a process situation which is already very slow and “endless”, and I suspect leaves too many feeling less than participatory or heard. Maybe to “sell” a better consensus polling feature to such “already too bureaucratic” entities to generate more aboutus revenue?

  2. MarkDilley Says:
    July 10th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    Martin, I think that is a great idea - an easier widget to help getting to consensus. I was hoping that the simplicity of wiki was what would show through from this post :-)

  3. geweb.org directory Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 9:44 am

    The story of IBM is the story of people that can change mission and survive in the global system .

  4. joots.co.uk Says:
    July 14th, 2008 at 11:05 am

    Wikis are useful, but only as good as the people who add to them, and as long as people abide by the ‘rules’. Having worked in large orgs its amazing how much knowlegde there is stored in all the shared drives of various dept’s which if organised/shared properly could help organisations to do things better. - David J(A happy and content fella managing IT @ http://www.joots.co.uk)

  5. AMR Says:
    July 21st, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    I always have wanted to create stories in various media, but been constrained by time. When thinking about ways of working with others to creatively collaborate, I came up with the idea of
    WikiStory: http://www.wikistory.com/wiki/WikiStory_Home .

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